ColorMunki Photo

Advanced Calibration Made Easy for Color Perfectionists

The simple way to color calibrate your camera, display, projector and printer with a broad range of options and control to ensure the color you see is exactly the color you will get.

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As a photographer you know perfect color is essential. ColorMunki Photo ensures your files can be captured, viewed, shared, printed and reproduced accurately every time. Without frustration. Without wasting expensive media and ink or your valuable time. You’ll be amazed at how simple getting professional color truly is.

X-Rite ColorMunki Photo is an all-in-one color control solution that provides complete control over calibrating your cameras, monitors, projectors and printers. Our wizard-driven software provides the perfect balance of automation with a full range of creative controls for photographers looking for more control over their color. We guide you through every step (in just minutes) providing a complete range of professional options that allow you to customize and fine tune your workflow and get back to focusing on what you love, knowing that what you’re seeing on your monitor will match your final output.

Let your artistic side go wild!

Put control of your image library at your fingertips and automatically extract colors from any image. Or go directly into an image and drag any color you can see to create a custom color palette. ColorMunki Photo also lets you grab color from virtually any substrate with the easy spot color measurement function. Then, when you’re ready to use your custom palette, synchronize or import into your favorite photo and design applications.

With ColorMunki's PrintSafe™, you can preview your color palettes under different lighting sources and evaluate your printing process. Think of the money you’ll save by catching out-of-gamut colors BEFORE you go to production!

Share it with the world

When you’re ready, confidently share your images with ColorMunki’s DigitalPouch. Simply drag and drop them into the pouch, “zip” it up, and send. The recipient doesn’t need any special software installed; they’ll be able to view the images with your embedded profiles in a self-contained image viewing window. Plus the DigitalPouch will automatically check the recipients monitor for a current profile and provide a warning if they aren’t profiled, so you can be assured you and your client are each viewing on a profiled monitor.

Create custom camera profiles with the included X-Rite ColorChecker Camera Calibration software and target, controlling your color right from capture

Easy and Advanced Monitor Profiling Modes: Easy mode’s predetermined selections are perfect for photographers who are looking for quick and easy profiling. Choose Advanced if you want more control over whitepoint, contrast, brightness or ambient measurements.

Calibrate and profile all of your LCD, CRT and laptop monitors so you know the colors you see on screen are the same colors you’ll see in print.

Automatic DDC recognition will quickly determine if your monitor is compliant and if so, perform all advanced display calibrations automatically, delivering a high quality profile with no user intervention.

Advanced mode offers the ability to optimize your display luminance, based on ambient light or any value you specify.

Ability to create custom display profile names or accept default name before saving and applying profile

ColorMunki technology gives you fast and accurate projector profiles so you can show your images on the big screen to clients, family and friends with color confidence!

Before and after visualization and calibration reminder prompts keep everything in check.

RGB and CMYK Printer Profiling

No need to read individual color patches – ColorMunki’s superfast scanning can rapidly measure test charts in less than one minute!

Simply scan one 50-patch test chart, and ColorMunki will learn how your printer behaves with these colors and dynamically generate a second chart of 50 patches. Then print and scan this second chart of 50 patches and your profile is perfected!

ColorMunki is so smart it even has the ability to optimize your profile based on images for specific colors, black & white, flesh tones, etc.

Camera Profiling

X-Rite ColorChecker Camera Calibration software includes both a desktop application and an Adobe® Lightroom® Plug-In for creating custom DNG profiles

Automatically extract colors from any image in your library or go directly into the image and drag any color you can see to create a custom color palette. ColorMunki Photo also lets you grab color from any surface with the easy spot color measurement function.

With ColorMunki's new PrintSafe™ checking capabilities, you can preview your color palettes under different lighting sources or evaluate printing processes for out of gamut colors before you go to production.

When you are ready to use your custom palette, synchronize or import into any of your favorite photo and design applications.

Communicate Effortlessly

Share your masterpieces quickly and easily with DigitalPouch, a self-executable application that allows for color managed sharing and viewing of your images.

Simply drag and drop the images you want to transport into the pouch, “zip” it up and send.

The receiver doesn’t need to own or install any special software. They simply doubleclick on the DigitalPouch file and they’ll be able to view the images with your embedded profiles in a fully automatic and color managed viewing application. DigitalPouch files are even completely cross platform independent so you can send the same file to Windows or Macintosh users and the color results will match.

DigitalPouch also checks the recipients monitor for an up-to-date display profile and indicates if it’a ViewSafe™ or color accurate environment. This provides you and your customer complete confindence that the color integrity of the images is being preserved when viewed by all.

User must have Administrator rights to install and uninstall the application

*This product may allow you to access certain features that are hosted online ("online services"), provided you have a high-speed Internet connection. The online services, and some features thereof, may not be available in all countries and/or languages, and may be discontinued in whole or in part without notice.

ACTIVATIONThis product must be activated prior to use. Internet connection is not required. Software must be installed prior to connecting and activating ColorMunki device.

LANGUAGE VERSIONSThis product is available in the following languages:

Chinese (Simplified)

English

French

German

Italian

Japanese

Portuguese

Spanish

Interactive training modules available in all languages (except Portuguese).

ColorMunki Photo includes an end user license agreement (EULA) allowing a single user the ability to install and run unlimited installations of ColorMunki software on any number of computers that he/she owns.

X-Rite ColorMunki allows customers to freely delete the solution from one computer and add to another without requiring any software registration. The ColorMunki activation process is designed to allow the software to connect to the hardware device when first using on designated computer station, and does not require an internet connection. A PDF of the single user, unlimited seat license policy can be downloaded via Support Tab link.

Advanced Display Calibration Made Easy for Color Perfectionists

For creative folks who demand professional quality coupled with an easy, wizard-driven interface, X-Rite ColorMunki Display offers everything you could possibly need to get you to a brilliantly-calibrated display or projector while helping you stay focused on doing what you love. Plus, with X-Rite ColorTRUE free mobile app you can even calibrate your mobile devices. For Color Perfectionists seeking simplicity, the ColorMunki Display will absolutely amaze you.

The ColorChecker® Classic target is designed to deliver true-to-life image reproduction so photographers can predict and control how color will look under any illumination. Each of the 24 colors represents the actual color of natural objects and reflects light just like its real-world counterpart.

The ColorChecker® 3-Step Grayscale lets you balance your images, plus simplifies the task of balancing your studio lighting. A white, 18% gray and a black target all on a single card make color adjustments faster and easier with your photo processing software.

"Profiling one computer with two monitors has never been easier or more intuitive."

Customer Dan Kass, M.D., Port Jefferson, NY

"Profiling one computer with two monitors has never been easier or more intuitive.Exactly what I was looking for. Monitor calibration and printer profiling for those who need it but don't care to know the details."

Customer David Shapiro, Buffalo Grove, IL

"I love being able to print the vision that I've created in my mind and on my monitor. My printer has always been the weakest link - NOT ANY MORE!!"

Customer Edwin Rosenwasser, M.D., of Rockville Centre, NY

"After using several other calibration systems, I finally am able to print accurately what I see on my monitor."

Customer Howard Rachlin, Durango, CO

"It's saving me paper and ink. I had tweaked my printer over the years to be (I thought) pretty good. But ... I still would have to print two or three test prints before I was really happy. Now the first (or occasionally) the second is right on!"

Customer Jodie Sinclair , Narragansett, RI

"Excellent product! I can't describe the joy of having the very 1st print be perfect!!"

Customer John Eakin, Burbank, CA

"The best and easiest device I used yet. And I've use almost all."

Customer Robert Kasden, Plano, TX

"First time that I have been able to match monitor and printer showing good colors!"

Customer Stephen Hagar, Glendale, AZ

"I have been trying for three years to get my monitor and printer in sync! Success has found me with ColorMunki!"

Customer William Keyes, New Hyde Park, NY

"Fantastic, on screen, step-by-step calibration routine! One of the best I've used."

Allen Murabayashi - CEO, PhotoShelter

"The ColorMunki is one of the most versatile color matching/profiling devices I've ever seen . . ."

X-Rite's Color Munki Photo An easy to use color calibrator for photographers - by Joshua Virata

"For all you photographers out there who want to enhance your prints with correct color presentation ColorMunki is for you. Profiling your displays and printers can dramatically help your prints and the easier it is to create these profiles the better."

"There is no doubt in my mind that the ColorMunki is a worthwhile addition to a photographer's arsenal. Monitors and printers will change over time and will do so more slowly than your eyes can discern."

“The ColorMunki product line brings very good color management down to the entry-level professional, advanced amateur, or enthusiast at a reasonable price. Both the hardware and software are easy to use and the digitizing features of the Design and Photo software make it an indispensable tool for those who need to match colors to paints, fabrics, and other physical objects.”

“So what do we mean when we say the ColorMunki Photo can do it all? We mean ColorMunki Photo can not only profile your monitors (compensating for ambient light) but it can build ICC profiles for printer/paper/ink combinations and profile projectors. And it can calibrate itself without resorting to any external references.”

“It's all a lot easier than it sounds, actually, and will likely sell best if you can demonstrate the ease of the device, making sure you show customers the difference between prints that were done before and after a color management system was on the job. Those prosumers who've already felt the frustration of the disconnect between that gorgeous bride they saw in their viewfinder and the strangely-orange-skinned lady in their first trash prints will be fascinated. And pitching the ColorMunki Photo as "at last, the finishing touch" to a consummate pro's workflow may just seal the deal.”

“The ColorMunki Photo package is a great product, a great deal and at a great price. If you want the best prints possible from your digital camera and photo printer thenyou really need to make sure you are using a high quality calibrated workflow and ColorMunki Photo makes it very easy to do that and more. If you don't think the $499 price tag is a good deal consider the cost of ink for your printer and how much you are going to save by getting the perfect print with the first print instead of the third or fourth. ColorMunki Photo pays for itself quickly in ink and paper saving alone.”

“If you take pictures and get them printed (by yourself or by a lab) then the first thing you need to sort out is getting your monitor calibrated. After that, if you do your own printing, then custom icc printer profiles will usually improve your print quality. I sometimes see people on forums say it's not really needed. If you value the quality (and consistency) of your final results then this is just plain wrong.”

“So what’s so exciting about the X-Rite ColorMunki Photo? As the new spectrophotometer on the block, it calibrates faster and has received rave press for it’s “user-friendliness.” But faster, easier-to-use calibration is still just calibration - necessary, but not fun. I was excited about the ColorMunki Photo because it does more than just calibrate: it can actually sample real-world colors from the physical environment and bring them into your digital world.”

"The ColorMunki photo takes the pain out of colour management. It makes what can be a troublesome and time consuming process into a simple, easy-to-follow, step by step system for achieving accurate colours on-screen and in print.”

“Up until now, you had to be a geek if you wanted to calibrate your printer. It would require meticulously measuring several sheets of hundreds and sometimes even thousands, of small color patches, individually, one at a time. Sounds like fun? Well, maybe if you’re generally very very bored. And, the devices used to measure, often cost quite a lot, if they are of any worthwhile quality. That was until the ColorMunki came to town. The ColorMunki is based on a spectrophotometer, not the cheaper colorimeter variations that are found in cheaper monitor profiling packages…”.

“Combining monitor calibration with printer profiling at a reasonable price, the ColorMunki Photo should take care of all your color management needs. The additional features, like the ability to optimize a printer profile for specific needs, and the Digital Pouch for sharing and viewing color managed images are intuitive and go a step beyond what anyone else has available.”

“Created by the minds at X-Rite, the ColorMunki Photo is the answer for people who take lots of pictures, but always wonder why what they see on the monitor isn’t what they remember shooting. This little gizmo profiles your monitors, even your printers and projectors, to allow you to display your shots exactly the way that you remember taking them on all your displays.”

“To paraphrase an old Beatles song, "Everyone has something to hide except me and my ColorMunki!" What do I mean? It is the hidden colors that exist in your photo, and because of any number of reasons, don't show up either on your monitor and/or on your printer, because they are not calibrated correctly and together. That is what the ColorMunki can do."

“X-Rite has a real winner with the ColorMunki Photo. Combining monitor calibration with printer profiling at a reasonable price, the ColorMunki Photo should take care of all your color management needs. The additional features, like the ability to optimize a printer profile for specific needs, and the Digital Pouch for sharing and viewing color managed images are intuitive and go a step beyond what anyone else has available.”